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Show She Figured It Out. A youth In an Indianapolis school was absent from school for a number of days. A teacher, who shows real Interest In the progress of her pupils, called the mother on the telephone and Inquired concerning the lad. "John's afraid to oome back,' said the mother. "He snys yon threatened to throw him into the furnace. Perplexed, the teacher for a day or two wondered what could have put that silly notion in the boy's head. Then she remembered. Some days before she had told that class some recalcitrants had been absent more days than Rood scholarship permitted. She had announced to her class then that if these persons missed another session she would be compelled to "drop them from the register." |